State v. Pearson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding “skin-to-skin contact is not required in order to establish a ‘sex act’ under section 712.17” and determining “prohibited contact occurs when (1) the specified body parts or substitutes touch and (2
• noting we need not resort to the rules of statutory construction “where legislative intent is evident through a reasonable construction of the statute”
• examining “whether the contact was made to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of the defendant”
• stating “prohibited contact occurs when . . . the specified parts or substitutes touch”
• considering “whether anyone else was present” and “the purposefulness of the contact”
• finding “[w]hether certain conduct constitutes ‘sexual contact’ is a fact question”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

48 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• In the Interest of A.K., Minor Child A.K., Minor Child
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2013-01-04· cited 76×
• State of Iowa v. Kenneth Lee Madsen
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2012-04-20· cited 73×
• State of Iowa v. Robert Anthony Howard
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2012-12-21· cited 38×
• People v. Ostrowski
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2009-08-18· cited 24×
• State of Iowa v. Aquiles Gonzalez Alvarado
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2016-02-26· cited 18×
• State v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1995-02-22· cited 17×
• State v. Capper
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1995-10-25· cited 16×
• State v. Monk
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1994-03-23· cited 15×
• State v. Bolsinger
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2006-02-10· cited 13×
• People v. Pifer
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2014-07-31· cited 11×
• State v. Davis
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1998-06-24· cited 7×
• People v. RIBERA
  California Court of Appeal· 2005-10-04· cited 3×
• People v. Zepeda
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2018-07-16· cited 2×
• Matthew Duane McGuire, Applicant-Appellant v. State of Iowa
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2015-07-09
• State of Iowa v. Aquiles Gonzalez Alvarado
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2015-08-05
• State of Iowa v. Stewart Droste
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2016-03-09
• State of Iowa v. Robert John Thede
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2016-10-12
• State of Iowa v. Vernard Archer
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-05-03
• State of Iowa v. John Dale Metzger
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-06-07
• In the Interest of C.W., Minor Child, C.W.
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-11-08

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Rich
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-05-13· cited 105×
• State v. Price
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1976-01-21· cited 59×
• State v. Mulder
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-12-23· cited 44×
• State v. Welton
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1981-01-14· cited 43×
• State v. Lawr
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1978-03-22· cited 41×
• State v. Nelson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1970-06-23· cited 40×
• State v. Byers
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1990-06-28· cited 34×
• State v. Kool
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1973-11-14· cited 32×
• State v. Soppe
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1985-09-18· cited 31×
• State v. Whetstine
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1982-02-17· cited 28×
• State v. Rodgers
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1986-05-13· cited 23×
• State v. Mueller
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1983-11-30· cited 19×
• State v. Schnaidt
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1987-07-22· cited 19×
• State v. Koplin
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1987-03-18· cited 12×
• State v. Baldwin
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1980-04-23· cited 11×
• Bown v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1991-09-18· cited 11×
• State v. Thap Hy
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1990-04-24· cited 11×
• State v. Phipps
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 1989-04-25· cited 8×
• State v. Kirklin
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1984-11-14· cited 6×